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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






2. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






3. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






4. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






5. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






6. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






7. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






8. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






9. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






10. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






11. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






12. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






13. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






14. Final stable syllable

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15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






16. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






17. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






19. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






20. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






21. Open syllable






22. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






23. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






24. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






25. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






26. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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27. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






28. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






29. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






30. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






31. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






32. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






33. Wide Range Achievement Test






34. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






35. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






36. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






37. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






38. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






39. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






40. Academic Language Therapy Association






41. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






42. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






43. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






44. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






45. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






46. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






47. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






48. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






49. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






50. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






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